From the Volkovisk (Vawkavysk, Belarus) memorial book. 

Bobtshe was a daughter in law of Sholem Potshter. Her husband was called Leybe and he was a wood trader. Her father was David the Rosh-Yeshiva. Her brother was Fishl, a Hebrew teacher. She could study Talmud, and she herself had composed a book of women’s prayers which were then handwritten by Hershl the scribe. During the Days of Awe she acted as a zogerke – a prayer leader – for the women in shul, and at tashlikh the women would gather around her and she would read for them. She was therefore known as ‘Bobtshe the zogerke.’ 

When an orphaned girl was going to be married, Bobtshe would always bring the bride to the cemetery, to invite the dead to the wedding ceremony. In a case of severe illness, when it was necessary to measure the cemetery, people would ask her to do this as a mitsve. Everybody knew and respected the good-hearted Bobtshe. 

Photograph of the Vawkavysk cemetery taken by Jessica Milne-Kahn from the International Jewish Cemetery Project

She raised an orphan boy in her house until his wedding. In her later years, she came to join her children in America, and in the new world remained active in charitable activities. She helped to found a retirement home in Bayonne, New Jersey, where she lived with her daughter Dobe Pink. She died in 1934, at the age of 81. The whole Jewish community of Bayonne took part in the big funeral, where Rabbi Chaim Segal and two other rabbis delivered eulogies. Bobtshe’s son, Hyman Cohen, who lives in New York, is the founder and president of the New York ‘Volkovisk Center’ and is very active in aid work for the people of Volkovisk (Vawkavysk).

Cite this source: 

Dr. Moses Einhorn and Annabel Gottfried Cohen (trans.) ‘Bobtshke Kilikovski Cohen, the zogerke who measured cemeteries’, excerpt from Dr. Moses Einhorn ‘Perzenlekhkaytn’, Volovisker Yizker Bukh ( New York, 1949) 261 – 262. https://www.pullingatthreads.com/post/bobtshke-kilikovski-cohen-the-zogerke-who-measured-cemeteries